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From: ptsc <ptsc AT nym DOT cryptofortress DOT com>
Subject: Weird attack on Schaeffer
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:19:18 -0400
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Why on Earth did the St. Petersburg Times suddenly reissue a story on Judge Schaeffer right now, of all times? Scientology has just "persuaded" two former critics, Bob Minton and Stacy Brooks, to turn traitor, and to spew perjury.
http://www.operatingthetan.com/bob/ has the perjuries.
Judge Schaeffer is not seeming at all happy with this attempted perversion of justice, and has expressed displeasure from the bench.
Suddenly, Judge Schaeffer is attacked by the St. Petersburg Times in an article about another Judge, Judge Cope. It accuses her of having "conspired" with Judge Cope not to report an arrest of Judge Cope for an alleged lurid crime in California. However, if she was not obligated to report this crime (that was already being handled by the police), she could not have "conspired" to do anything at all.
You can only "conspire" to do something illegal. The SP Times is skirting libel pretty narrowly (and for what?).
That's this story.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/05/21/Opinion/Court_needs_better_ju.shtml
The funny thing is this identical story has already appeared twice, over a year ago. Why suddenly report it again now as if it's news?
http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/071601/Columns/Snooty_robes_in_Pinel.shtml http://www.festivalofreading.com/News/020801/TampaBay/Circuit_judges_elect_.shtml are two previous stories mentioning this case.
I don't see anything new or exciting in the latest version of it, so why is this "news" again? I smell bullshit, and bullshit smells like OSA.
ptsc
